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Medical research

Old mice regain leg strength after antibody treatment

Muscle stem cells, the cells in muscle fibers that generate new muscle cells after injury or exercise, lose their potency with age. But a study by researchers at Stanford Medicine shows that old mice regain the leg muscle ...

Oncology & Cancer

How a bereaved mom is helping researchers improve palliative care

Jamila Hassan's son Omar was two when he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. He underwent chemotherapy, remission, a relapse, more chemo and a bone marrow transplant before dying shortly before his 10th birthday ...

Surgery

New scoring system to fix sex disparity in liver transplants

Every year, some 13,000 people are added to the liver transplant waiting list in the United States, but fewer than 9,000 receive a liver. Placement on the list largely depends on a number called the MELD (model for end-stage ...

Medical research

Why immunology research needs a more human focus

Vaccinology—once a hit-and-miss matter of injecting a killed or severely weakened pathogen into a patient's arm and hoping for the best—has undergone major advances with the advent of analytical technologies that permit ...

Medical research

Scientists decipher the danger of gummy phlegm in severe COVID-19

Stanford University scientists have implicated a logjam of three long, stringy substances behind deadly thick sputum in COVID-19 patients who need a machine to help them breathe. One of these substances may prove especially ...

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